how to have Accent-insensitive filter in django with postgres?

Question

Hi I find that on postgres database, we can\'t configure default accent sensivity (on old mail exchanges).

Is there a way to have a _icontains also insensitive to specia

Answer 1

I'm working on an unaccent lookup field for django and postgreSQL. It's on github: https://github.com/marianobianchi/django-accent-free-lookup

It's working fine for now, but it still need a lot of work. I'm using it and it doesn't show any problems for now.

The way of using it is to make a new Manager for the model you want to have unaccents searches (look at the example stored at the end of managers.py file at the project).

The lookups I have already implement are:

"__aexact"

"__aiexact"

"__acontains"

"__aicontains"

They are equivalent to the common field lookups that come with django:

"__exact"

"__iexact"

"__contains"

"__icontains"

with the difference that they are "accent insensitive" for the most common accented characters.